Hi, thanks for your input, this post is part of a series because as you say this is a huge project.

So i am making milestone posts reporting progress and project status.

The project is basically a live maintnet (not a testnet) with faster times and softer consensus rules for geeky steemians to to test and play with parameters, price feeds, economic controls, etc.

The idea is to provide a community sandbox for witnesses and power users alike to try stuff that cannot be tested in the real STEEM because of monetary repercussions but that need validation to enhance the economic management of the platform.

You don't burn the 1000 millions premined of STEEM because you will be burning 400 million dollars... You don't mess with the price... you don't try negative interest rate...

There are test nets available but those are only for the geek stuff not the monetary stuff.

You can read more in these other posts.

More detail in This Post

Economic model of steem like blockchains

Main project HERE

Exploring the economic model of steem like blockchains

Economics HERE

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